A Prospective Multicenter Study of "Inside Stents" for Biliary Stricture: Multicenter Evolving Inside Stent Registry (MEISteR).
Hirofumi KogureHironari KatoKazumichi KawakuboHirotoshi IshiwatariAkio KatanumaYoshinobu OkabeToru UekiTesshin BanKeiji HanadaKazuya SugimoriYousuke NakaiHiroyuki IsayamaPublished in: Journal of clinical medicine (2021)
This prospective multicenter study demonstrated that inside stents above the papilla were feasible in malignant and benign biliary strictures, but a randomized controlled trial is warranted to confirm its superiority to conventional stents across the papilla.
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